Mounting for brake gears



Dec. 15, 1925- s. J. STRID moummq FOR BRAKE GEARS Filed Aug- 5, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 j e e-272 07".- 5I/E/V I/UL/l/S 5TR/o Dec. 5,

S. J. STRID MOUNTING FOR BRAKE GEARS Filed Aug. 5, 1925 2 Sheets-Shut 2 Patented Dec. 15,1925.

UNITED STATES:

I 1,555,870 PATENT OFFICE.

svEN JULIUS STBID, or cnIclieo, ILLINOIS, Assienoaro FRED MATHEWS, or

.. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MOUNTING son BRAKE GEARS.

Application filed August 5, 1925., SerialNo. 48,428.

To all whom it may concern: v V

Be it known" that I, SVEN JULIUS STRID,1

acitizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Mounting fr Brake Gears, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to a structure for mounting the gearing for actuating takeup chaiii of a railway car brake. The pr1- mary object in View is to provide a staunch and durable construe ion that will permit the gearing to be conveniently mounted at the end of a car and be. firmly reinforced against. the pull exerted by. the take-up chain of the brake mechanism. This reinforc'enient is accomplished by mounting the gear housing in a pendent manner from the end of the car, and extending a brace member inwardly longitudinally of the car to a cross-piece such as a body-bolster of the {under-frame or a transverse beam of the car .frame. This structure is specially adaptable for use on metal-body gondola and hopperbottom carsv which usually dispense. with the end-sill, although the principle may be employed in other types of cars.

I prefer to carry out my invention and accomplish the objects thereof in substantially the manner hereinafter fully described and as more particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being here made to the accompanying drawings that form a part of.

this specification.

In the drawings: I I Fig. 1 is a top plan of the mounting applied to a gondola car with the longitudinal bracing member broken olf. s

Fig. 2 ista front elevation of the structure illustrated in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical side elevation of the mounting structure with the longitudinal biasing member broken and shortened, to show. it attached to a cross piece or bodybolster of the underframe.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the application of the structure to a hopperbottom car.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation thereof looking at the structure from the end of the car.

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal side elevation of the structure illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5.

The drawings are, in a sense, merely diagrammatic for the purpose of disclosing the principles of my invention and to illustrate typical or preferred. embodiments of the same, and in the drawings I have employed similar reference characters to designate like parts wherever they appear throughout the several views. H

The portion of the mounting inwhich the gearsare journaled comprises a top and a bottom casting, the latter consisting of a. plate 10 that is horizontally disposed V and is of substantially rectangular shape, and there is an angular shaped arm or bracket 11 extending from the,same downwardly and inwardly with respect to the car, said plate and arm being provided with suitable bearings for'the journaling of the spindles upon which the gears are mount- 1 ed. The top casting consists of a horizontal plate 12 of approximately square dimensions and has its edges that are disposed transverse to the end of the car provided with depending-flanges 13 to which are secured the correspondingly spaced upstanding flanges 14 on the bottom plate 10. The brake mast or actuating shaft 15 pierces the top plate 12 and passes through one of the in View of this fact I find it convenient tomount the gears and housing. pendent direct from the car body and brace the same against a cross-sill that is placed inwardly from the end of the car. The car body, when of metal, consists of a plate or sheet bent angularly'to provide a portion of the floor 17 and an upright end-wall 18 for a gondola car, and to this floor I secure a. air of spaced hangers or straps 19 of substantially U-shape insection (Fig. 2) that are disposed with the connecting member of the .U in vertical position so that the flangedv or lateral upper andlower ends. may be bolted, riveted or otherwise secured respectively to the is secured thereto.

floor 17 and the adjacent portion of the topplate 12. Preferably the major portion of the top-plate projects outwardly beyond the vertical plane of the end wall 18 of the car body as will be observed in Figs. 1 and 3 so that the brake mast may be positioned clear of the'body, and I provide an upstanding rib or fin 20 upon the upper surface of the top-plate 12 that extends in front of the adjacent strap or hanger 19 and tapers downwardly towards the outer edge of the plate. The brace for the mounting structure consists of an angle-bar of L-section the vertical flange 21 of which is riveted to the rib or fin 20 and also to the web of the adjacent hanger 19 against which it is positioned, while its horizontal flange 22 passes over the extension 16 of the top-plate 12 and This brace extends inwardlyparallel with the longitudinal center of the car to one of the transverse members or cross-sills 23, of the under-frame or car-frame to which it is secured by means of a right-angle corner piece or bracket 24. Thus it will be seen that mounting structure is braced against the pull of the take-up chain of the brake mechanism which is exerted longitudinally of the car, and liability of the structure becoming distorted or pulled out of position is thereby overcome.

In connection with cars having hopperbottomsI secure the hangers or straps 19 upon a transverse angle-bar 25 at one end of the car frame and the angular lon itudi- 35 na1 brace-bar 26, corresponding to t e bar 21-=22 of Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is connected to one of the hangers or straps 19 by means of a'plate 27 bent oblique intermediate two horizontal edges (Fig. 5) to properly position the flange of the brace so that it may be secured to an inclined cross-member 28 thatis ack of the end of the car and inclines upwardly towards the longitudinal center-line of the car. Otherwise the parts of the mounting structure for use on this particular type of car are the same as those employed in connection with the gondola type heretofore described.

What I claim is: a p n 1. A mounting for a brake gear for railway cars comprising top and bottom castings united in spaced relation and between which the gear-elements are journaled,

spaced straps secured pendently to the carand connected to and supporting ,said top and bottom castings, and a brace bar connected at one end to the aforesaid structure and extending longitudinally of the car and secured at its opposite end to a cross member of the car.

2. A mounting for a brake gear for railway cars comprising top and bottom castings united in spaced relation and between posite end connected to a cross-member of the car.

3. A mounting for a brake gear for railway cars comprising the combinationwith a car-frame, of an open hollow structure in which the gear elements are journaled, means for securing said structure to the end of the car frame, and a brace separate from the car-frame that is secured at one endto said frame and at its opposite end connected to said hollow structure.

4. A mounting for a brake gear for railway cars comprising an open hollow structure in which the gear elements are 4 journaled, means 'for securing said structure at the end of the car, and a brace secured at one end to thecar and at its opposite end connected both to said securing means and to said hollow structure. J

5. A mounting for a brake gear 'for rail-- way *cars comprising an open hollow structure in which the gear elements are journaled, spaced straps secured pendently to the car and connected to and supporting said structure, and a brace bar connected at one end to a cross member of the car and at its opposite end extending alongside of and secured to saidfin and one of said straps.

4 Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, this 7th day of July, 1925. I

SVEN JULIUS STRI'D. 

